Police finally destroy Walvis shacks

HUNDREDS of land grabbers yesterday watched as a large contingent of police officers flattened scores of shacks erected at the weekend on the outskirts of Tutaleni at Walvis Bay.

A small group of women, children and elderly men sat around a fire having breakfast at their destroyed shacks a kilometre away. Yesterday's police action came after the Affirmative Repositioning movement issued a statement saying because of the government's slow response, they now have nothing to tell the people over land. He also said they have so far met Prime Minister Saara Kuugongwelwa-Amadhila and President Hage Geingob on the agreement reached last year in July under which the government agreed to service land for 200 000 plots. The violence which erupted over the weekend where land invaders used sticks, stones and bottles against the police who fought back using rubber bullets, left people injured, others arrested, while property and vehicles were destroyed.